Basics of Hacking Hacking is famous and is among the most searched words on search engines. It’s always been an interesting topic for school students. Hacking is an extra mile from the normal information technology field. You need to know many things if you want to peruse your career in the field of ethical hacking or security testing. Prerequisites • Knowledge of TCP/IP protocols • Basic knowledge of Metasploit framework • Prior hands-on experience with Virtual Machines • Understand general concepts of networking technologies • Experienced in any one operating system [Linux, Windows & OSX] • Understands the basics of hacking terminologies, e.g. exploit, payload, vulnerability • Prior experience with any network based security scanners What we will cover As we have just mentioned, learning hacking requires you to know many things, however, we will present for you in a nutshell how to perform ethical hacking but our workshop is limited to focusing on ke